August, 2009

Blog - About

Whose blog is this?

Hi and welcome to my blog! :-) I am Anu, a Program Manager in the Visual Studio ALM Test Tools group. This blog is where I post cool stuff about products I am working on and musings on software development and testing.

Of course, my current posts focus on software testing - how to find better bugs, how to test faster and smarter, pet peeves on the drudgery of testing, tools to make life easier for testers and developers. Drop me a line for a rave or rant on Visual Studio or share your opinions on testing software - I am always happy to hear from you!

Disclaimer: The posts on this weblog are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. The statements and opinions expressed herein are my own and are not made on behalf of my employer.

When testing UI applications, you often want to locate a control on the app under test that has dynamic properties. For instance, when you login into a website, there may be a link/label on the first page that says “Welcome user, UserName1”. Now this...

Lately, there has been a hurried slew of queries on migrating test cases to VSTS 2010 from other sources. The most popular q of course is to move test cases from Excel to VSTS 2010.
We have this facility to import work items from Excel to VSTS, right...

Lately, we’ve been asked by some of our users if they can use VSTS 2010 test features to test their Silverlight apps. Well, web tests will still work on Silverlight web apps since they don’t operate at a control level, but functional tests that require...